A Newspaper Ran An Article Trump Didn’t Like, So He Took Revenge In This ‘Unusual’ Way

Donald Trump’s counterpunch to a Des Moines Register editorial lambasting the Republican presidential candidate is being denounced by the Iowa newspaper as a low blow.

The paper reported Friday that Trump’s campaign would not issue press credentials to a Saturday campaign event in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The newspaper reported, and Trump’s campaign confirmed, that the campaign was responding to a negative editorial in the Register.

“We are disappointed that Mr. Trump’s campaign has taken the unusual step of excluding Register reporters from covering his campaign event in Iowa on Saturday because he was displeased with our editorial,” explained Amalie Nash, editor and vice president of audience engagement, in a statement. “As we previously said, the editorial has no bearing on our news coverage.”

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The Register’s editorial called Trump “wholly unqualified to sit in the White House,” a “feckless blowhard,” the “distraction with traction,” and “unfit to hold office.” It then pleaded with him to drop out of the race.

Trump then fired back with a statement saying the newspaper’s political coverage was “uneven,” “inconsistent,” and “dishonest.”

At Saturday’s event, Trump portrayed himself as the candidate fighting the political elite and the media, and noted that the Register’s reporters were free to attend the event as members of the crowd.

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Craig Robinson, founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheIowaRepublican.com, said the media is taking the wrong tactic if it wants to quash Trump.

“In all of this, what the media can’t seem to understand is that this sort of behavior plays right into Trump’s hands. The media seems content to try to play gotcha with Trump in an effort to derail his campaign. It’s not going to work. If Trump is skilled at anything, it’s his ability to win a street fight with an angry objector,” Robinson wrote.

Others agreed. “Love him, hate him, or something in between, apparently Trump will not be trampled over by bully media. They’ve met their match,” wrote Breitbart’s David Webb.